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Ok, here's my plan. Four track the corridor from the CLC lines from Castlefield Junction, through Deansgate to Oxford Road. The new lines will be slightly to the north between Castlefield Junction and Oxford Road. This will require slewing Whitworth Street to the north which in turn will...

I think it's generally accepted that cities benefit from high speed rail - i.e. London, Birmingham and Manchester - but that benefit isn't really felt by areas in between, especially if there are no stations. As an example, in France the LGVs benefit cities like Paris, Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg...

if they were too long, why didn't they just take some trailers out?

Hence the Saturday afternoon TV shows that show ex-footballers watching live football on TV which the viewers at home aren't allowed to watch.

The best thing is for the clubs to lay on road coaches from the home city to the game.

I believe the original closure notice also included claims that keeping it open would have restricted capacity on the Thameslink core as it was too close to St Pancras. Note the whole point of the Thameslink core is maximal capacity.

It's surprising that any of it survived.

And don't forget freight, which was more important in the 1960s than now. Even in the 1960s Britain ran on coal. The MML served the Notts collieries and was effectively two parallel main lines; the slow lines set up primarily for Toton-Brent coal trains.

Actually a Leander Class light cruiser rather than a destroyer. Most of the class 50s were given names of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers rather than mere cruisers. Oddly, one wasn't called Nelson.

The best ventilation would be to have a high overall roof with the station buildings all off to one side. Birmingham city centre has sufficient retail space elsewhere, and if it doesn't it can be built elsewhere.

The whole thing needs a high speed line from London-Leicester-Nottingham to join up with the eastern branch of HS2. I know that's just a crayon line at this stage, but if you take several cities, divide their population size by distance to London, and plot that metric against time to London, I...

Does this exclude hybrids? Because wouldn't a hybrid running off overhead electric power be more powerful than the diesel?

AFAIK, trains switching from the fasts to the slows and vice-versa is in fact part of the problem. Because it is fast-fast-slow-slow, rather than slow-fast-fast-slow or fast-slow-slow-fast anything crossing over has to cross over a line coming the other way. That could be helped by a...

The main airport in Paris is at Charles de Gaulle to the West of the city, which sits naturally on a link between the North and the south-east, from a Parisian perspective. London's main airport is at Heathrow in the West, with Gatwick to the South. The others aren't worth bothering with...

This speculative idea brought to you by someone who styles themself as "chief medical officer": https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/10/childrens-health-england-must-be-put-ahead-of-profits-says-chief-medic

Have you tried the Midland Railway Society? http://www.midlandrailway.org.uk/ They have a library at Butterley.

My understanding is that p-way work inside tunnels is much more difficult than open air work. Though network rail should obviously not compromise on safety, it means that the ride quality in tunnels is frequently poor.

Will there be enough of them? It's often seems to be the case that for microfleets the govt underspends now and leaves inadequate provision later.

Loughborough Junction and Loughborough are not exactly close.

Why not bagpipes?